Just diagnosed with erosive esophagitis

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19. I had such a situation, and my stomach acid ate through my blood vessel in my esop. After the

corrective surgery (and barely making it to the hospital in time to stop the internal bleeding from the blood vessel being corroded by stomach acid), I am now on a routine of Lansoprazole 30 mg. (one pill daily), which keeps the stomach acid at bay. Thus, it's been a long time since I've had any incidents w/ this particular situation.

Prevacid is like Lansoprazole too, and Prilosec, so you seem to be on course for what you need for treatment-wise (but I don't know about the diabetes situation or the rest of your situation).

I never did really have any pain associated w/ this condition, it was more or less, the leaked blood into my stomach caused me to throw up, kind of similar to what an alcoholic does when they throw up, and what the saving grace was for me, was that I had another episode of throwing up blood, while I was in the emerg. room right in front of the docs.

At first they couldn't figure out what was going on, ran tests (my alcohol level was 0% when they kept asking me about alcohol intake (so be sure that you put a note or update to your medical notes you carry in your wallet re. your medical situation that you have an esop. issue so they won't waste time on misdiagnosis of your situation (like they did w/ the drinking questions to me, obviously it's a common occurrence w/ alcoholics).

Good luck to you. With my treatment (of Lansoprazole), no problems thus far have been experienced, so you can have a life afterwards (and it's been at least 10+ years since).